Amazing Facts about the Human Body

 

Learn some very interesting facts pertaining to the human body.
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• Human beings lose 40 to 100 strands of hair on average per day.
• When you cough, you exhale air at a rate as high as 60mph.
• A sneeze can exceed the a speed of 100mph.
• An average human consumes about 16,000 gallons of water in their lifetime.
• A fingernail and toenail takes roughly 6 months to grow from its base to its tip.
• The average head of hair has 100,000 strands of hair.
• While it takes 43 muscles to frown, it only takes 17 to smile. : )
• Babies have 300 bones in their body at birth. By adulthood we only have 206.
• By age 60, most people will have lost their taste buds.
• Humans shed their skin everyday. It turns out to be about 1.5 pounds of skin per year.
• The human brain stops growing at the age of 18.
• Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
• The total amount of skin covering an adult human weighs 6 lbs.
• Approximately 1 out of 25 people suffers from asthma.
• The human brain uses 20% of the bodys energy but is only 2% of the bodys weight.

Babies have 300 bones in their body at birth. By adulthood we only have 206. >>> y is that

-- Edited by owadkelly at 14:23, 2008-07-17

owadkelly wrote:

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Babies have 300 bones in their body at birth. By adulthood we only have 206. >>> y is that

-- Edited by owadkelly at 14:23, 2008-07-17

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mi memba dem did teach us dis in middle school

 

owadkelly wrote:

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Babies have 300 bones in their body at birth. By adulthood we only have 206. >>> y is that

-- Edited by owadkelly at 14:23, 2008-07-17

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This is so as the babies bones fuse forming bigger bones. So the more the smaller bones fuse and become larger bones, the less bones they are. Thus, 300 to 206.

 

good info!

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.........Dont believe this got to do some resaerch!!!